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Patented April 19,1881.

(No Model.)

NPEYERS. P lormumofimman, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. BUSH, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN WHIP COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,381, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filed March 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY J. BUSH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Whips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the details of the construction of a rattan whip havinga gut core, and is in the nature of an improvement upon the patent of George P. Overin, No. 189,954, dated April 24, 1877, the object being to improve the manner of fitting the rattans around and upon the gut core, whereby much expense in the cost of construction is avoided, and such a stock is produced as permits of turning and finishing it in an ordinary rounding-machine down to the smallest diameter required to produce the very slender flexible tip of a whip.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a portion of a whip-stock constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the grooved core-tube. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the whip-stock. Fig. 4 is a,

side View of the core-tube detached from the whip-stock, its upper ends being spread apart to show the position of the core within it. Fig. 5 is a sectional transverse View of the rounded core-tube, showing the core within it. Fig. 6 is an enlarged transverse section of onehalf of the core-tube. Fig. 7 is an enlarged transverse section of one-half of the core-tube rounded. Fig.8isatransversesection'through the line new, Fig.1; and Fig. 9 is a transverse section through the line 00 a, Fig. 4.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several figures.

In the patent to Overin, above referred to, is described a whip having a core formed of one or more strings of gut, and said core is surrounded and stiffened by rattan sections, which are tapered to proper size and length to fit together side by side around the core, as shown in Fig. 2 of said patent, said rattan sections running, as shown, the whole length of the whip.

In practice it is found that the cost of makin g the series of tapering rattan sections which must compose each whip, properly fitting them side to side, so that they will glue up solidly, and cutting the inner edge of each so that a place for the core will be made through their interior, entails so much expense for labor that the cost of so making a whip is prohibitory.

In the whip herein described, which embodies my improvements, I use the gut core described by Overin; but I construct the rattan covering therefor in a totally different manner.

In the drawings, 0 is the gut core. a is a core-tube. b b are rattan sidings surrounding the core-tube a. e are chink-pieces fitted between the edges of said sidings.

The gut core 0 is the ordinary hard-twisted gut string. The core-tube a. is made from a Strip of rattan, of a form square in section, as shown, split for a portion of its length, as seen in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and having the inner adjacentfaces of said split portions grooved half-round, as shown, so that when said faces are brought together the said two half-round grooves form a core-tube of such diameter as adapts it to receive the gut core 0 within it, and said split halves of the said strip of rattan are glued together upon the gut core, and the sidings b and chink-pieces eare glued around the core-tube a in the usual manner, and as shown in Figs. 1 and 8; but in thus covering said core-tube with said sidings and chink-pieces the core-tube a is left longer than said enveloping-pieces b and e, as in Figs. 1 and 3, in which the transverse lines 2 2 show about the extreme height to which said pieces run on the stock. From said lines 2 2 the coretube or alone extends with the gut core 0 within it.

The whip-stock, made up as just described, is now turned and finished in a rounding-machine, which rounds the stock and tapers it from end to end, and that portion of the coretube a above lines 22 which was square when the stock was glued up is, by the roundingmachine, reduced to a proper slim, flexible, tapering whip-tip, having solidly embedded in it said core 0, which gives a toughness and spring to it such as is required for that portion of the whip-stock.

It is obvious that, if preferred, the core-tube may be made of two separate pieces like to The Within described improved Whip, con- 10 each half of the piece shown in Fig. 4, and that sisting of the rattan core-tube a, inclosing the said separate pieces may be grooved and each gut core 0, and the side strips, 1) and 6, all solglued upon the other with the core 0 between idly cemented together, substantially as set 5 them. forth.

Afterthe whip-stock has been made as above HENRY J. BUSH. described it is ready to receive the usual outer Witnesses: finish. ANDREW L. BUSH,

What I claim as my'invention is- JOSEPHINE G. BUSH. 

